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Ft. Give Light ané the People Wilk Find Their own Way ~ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1941 -

Come right in. ‘But keep your

‘hands up.

. Just a year ago we opened the door to a somair your

~ Rumania. Bombers, U-boats, hunger, Sleep in ‘pubways. Death in ditches. Billions for defense. He's gone now, and good riddance. You've got a chance to shine by contrast. Three hundred and sixty-five days in ‘which to pick up some of the pieces your loutish cousin left around. | ~ Here's luck. But we'll be watching you.

GOODBY, MR. PELLEY the Silver Shirts, is finding out that “Hoosier hae draws the line at hate-mongers. Indiana washed away the dirt left by these sorry gentlemen several years ago, but unfortunately a few of the hangers-on remained It is more than a little distasteful to realize that the Pelleys, unwelcome in other states, can be led {to believe that they can set up quarters in Indiana with. both friends and assistance. . The Pelleys are learning that they have b en misled. They are learning that those in Indiana who are willing to join in any movement of selling slander, lies an hate are very, very few. They are learning that honesty and de‘cency are dominant in Indiana and that such a ‘as the ill-disguised {Fellowship Press” are [side of “Hoosier Hospitality.” ; We invite William Dudley Pelley to take his leave of Indiana. And we suggest that he take with him some of the Hoosiers who are out of step with the rest ” Indiana.

$70, 200, 000,000 : | ON! its multiple-digit adding machine, the U. 5. Treasury has just computed a new grand total of all outstanding tax-exempt securities. The figure is $70,200,000,000. Of that, approximately $11,400,000,000 worth is held by governmental agencies, trust and sinking funds, and Federal Reserve banks—and wouldn't be taxable anyway. But the remaining $58,800,000,000 worth > owned by private citizens and corporations—for whom it performs. the yeoman service of providing tax-free income. In looking around for more revenue to ons finance our defense expenditures, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau properly points to this large reservoir of wealth as the, first place Congress should tap. Under our Const tution, | -and under the simple rules of square dealing, Congress could not levy taxes against public securities already sold with a tax-exemption guarantee. But Congress can, and should, require that all future issues of Federal, state and local governmental bonds be made Subject to the same taxation as private securities. ; Then, as’ the tax-exempt issues mature, they will be refunded by taxable issues, and thus in time the great pool of privileged wealth will be drained into the normal channels of finance where the graduated income tax can take its toll, in accordance with the principle of ability to pay.

BETTER INDUSTRY-LABOR RELATIONS

THE Smith committee’s strong indictment of the National - Labor Relations Board contained many serious counts which have been proved by the record. Its recommendations of a shake-up in the NLRB personnel and of the separation from the pay roll of officials and employees “who have demonstrated a biased attitude toward litigants” should be carried out. As the committee noted, “a good beginning” was made] when the Président appointed Dr. Harry A. Millis as chairman and three of the Board's officers who iin been most zealous in maladministering the Wagner Act resigned in haste. bs Experience has shown that the Wagner Act should | be revised in some respects. But further progress in the successful administration of law may be expected whether revision comes soon or late. For, with Dr, Millis and Dr. “William M. Leiserson constituting a voting majority, the

American industry and labor was acquired somewhere outside the pink-hued and smoles-flled cocktail salons of Washington. Dr. Millis, in a - year-end review of the developments of our national labor policy, speaks a good word for what ~ has been accomplished under the Wagner Act and other laws, and looks confidently to the future: “The (Wagner) Act was not devised all industry-labor disputes. It was desi great source of unrest: That of strikes fusal of employers to recognize or barg, bargaining representatives.

a panacea for ed to touch one urring from rewith collectiveIn this, I am fire, it has

“Yet there is more to Le done. We have hardly touched the vast field of conciliation and mediation.’ In the coming months we are likely to see an increasing resort to these

the great reservoir of energy, brains, patience and skill with which our country is endowed, the country should gee a diminution of needless strikes, and unresf in all our industries. ” »

LET'S DECIDE ON A DATE

[ s AUTovosILE owners in Indiana th again have been put through the license plate merry-go-around. It has become an annual affair with a half dozen deadlines and a half dozen statements. | This year’s stunt left a large numbe of motorists with a bad taste in their mouths and scant respect for the offipro involved, . et the Legislature put an end to this ania] fates by z the legal dates for the purchas of license plates.

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By Westhirook Pegler

lsolati onists Right in Saying Wel

Haye No Quarrel With Hitler, but ig

Forget ie Has a Quarrel With Us|

EW YORK, Jon. 1—President Roosevelt's speech | ‘recognizing the enemies of the United States might have been nade with equal truth a year ago, but the election, delayed things, and, anyway, it is good to have i in the record now.. Now the Nazis and. the Japanese understand us. ‘but, more important, the people of His country know where they stan

From the very beginning ther: |

has never been an hour when ' there was any doubt as to the right or wrong of the conflict or the guilt of the criminal natiori. The Nazis under Hitler have + repeatedly proclaimed themselves the chosen peopl¢, with a mission to conquer the viorld and reduce . their racial inferiors everywhere to the status of slaves, and their in an unguarded moment of wrath, once

Tess, i take an interest in the infernal ‘affairs

threatened to

of this -country which would not be pleasant to |’

Americans. They are row well advanced or their mission of

world domination, and their interest in American | affairs has bee, felt in many ways, particularly |

through the anti-American bund, which has had the effrontery to fold military exercises in this couniry after the fashion which was so successful in Austria and Czechoslovakia. This bund, of course, is an agency of the Nazi government and an informal army of invasion. “Thissis not a fireside chat on war; it is a talk on national s:curity,” the Presiderit said, but within a few minute: he had taken from Adolf Hitler's own speech, delive'ed only three weeks ago, the words in which. the Fushrer rejected any possibility of pe:iceful ‘relations between the American Philosophy of government and Naziism. So, although Mr. Roosevelt sugar-cot.ted the bitter issue of war with a riore palatable phriise, the fact remains that he recognized the inevitability of a showdown between the Ur ited States and G:rmany should Britain lose. ” » #

HOSE wl o attempt to deny or obscure this truth 1: fier nothing but a blurry hope that a victo'ious Axis wpuld then be content with its gains and would discover, afte all, some means by which Hitler could be induced 0 live in peace with that world with which he lat:ly said Germany never could be rgcon=ciled. Senator Burt Wheeler has me: rely insisted that the United States; bas no quarrel with Hitler, when it is plain that Hitler makes the quarrel. Neither of | these, nor any othe: prominent opponent of aid for the British, has offcred the slightest basis for security or peace should Britain fall, except, of course, acceptance of Hitler's way, which’ would revoke everything that Americanism {s. Meanwhile what do these men and others like them think the Nazis would be doing in the United States—the Nazis who sent hordes of civilian “tourists” into Riuimania and Norway who suddenly put on brassards aiid were soldiers? Xow many such Ger-

| man guests would be needed to seize the armories,

power planis and broadcasting stations in the key cities of a tiusting, untrained, il'-armed and generally flabby Unit:d States? And "which course is wiser— to fight a war later on two sides alone agiinst a triumphal /ixis or, by a strong, national effo’t now, provide tha; help which may enable the British and Greece and, perhaps,-a revived France to bea; Hitler in this one? 2 » & HIS isthe first time that the whole United States has eiamined the German actions .in this war and frankli; looked at the declared belief of the Germans that they are actually the chosen peorle, with a mission {0 rule their inferiors, including that mongrel breed, tlie Americans. Hitherto all expressions, though soraetimes sharp, have been couchied in general terms and a pretense at least of international | amenity his been maintained. Nothing that the President said has impaired good relations vith any friendly power, for the powers of -the Axis have been anti-American since lorig before the war ald the official press of Italy has been openly baiting th: American nation and its people for four years as tle official policy of tie Duce. The sp2ech dispels all doubt. Germany, [taly and Japan hae combined agains; the United States for action following the defeat of Britain, as everyone knew befcre but public opinion couldn’t quifie realize, and this nation will now go unreservedly into the armamenf; industry to help Britain beat Hitler,

Business By Jon T. Flynn = |

Lack of Sailors Hinted in Britain; Will We Be Asked to Supply Men?

EW YORK, Jan, I.—A strange report comes from Washington. It has a direct bearing on the proposal to lend merchant ships and warships to Great Britain. The 1eport is that Britain has not been able to get enough ren to form crews for the destroyers-—the 50 destroyers—we have already “traded” to Britain. Several of these destroyers, we are told, have not yet beén put into service because of the lack of Crews. ‘This ig due to the fact that Eng- - land has not been able to train men fast enough to riake up for “the imniense losses thet have been sustained by the roysl navy and the merchant marine as the result of sinkings. Whether this report is true or not remain; to be seen, We car only say that it comes from a source friendly to England. If this be true then what will be the first consequence of lending large rumbers of merchant ships and naval vessels to England? There seenis little doubt that the riext demand will be for men to handle them. Thus every step we take seems to lead inevitably to the vey brink of war. First, lend money to Britain. This ci riot be done very vell because a loan of money would be grotesque. So, following the logic of the slogan that “This is our war,” we find way around that. Therefore we say lend Britain, not money, but planes ships, naval vessels, arms. But having gone this 1:r, we are confronted with the proposition that these '¢ill be no good to Eritain unless ve can furnish the sk lled men also to handle them. Will we just lend them? And will we say this is not going to war? #8 =» 5 least Congress sho'lld, before it fakes any step a ong this fatal road, investigate what it is doing. Is it a fact tha any part of the desiroyer fleet already sent to Britain is tied up for lack of men? Is it a fact that any part of the desiroyer fleet alhandl: such ships and war vessels as ‘ve may “lend” to her? And if this is a fadt, how will she use these vessel: without our loan of the men as wel, as the ships a 4 Plangse i s 18 so vital, so grave a step that Congr ask for unmistakable ev.dence, “ih at Congress must ance 0f some interested propagandist. It must have facts, for it is playing with the lives ¢nd the demoeracy if the American people. The truth is that the “Get into the war” groups were getting bolder every day in this country until Willi Allen White brought them up ‘with a jek with

‘his statement. And the basis on which the war groups

want us in the war is this very one ¢f men—men in Euroje when the time comes, men row where they are 1iost needed in the skilled positions. The other reascn, of course, is to create a war dictatorship to Epete: production, e have set fire to a little patch of trees the forest. It will be only a little while lefore the 1a the forest will be on fire. 2

So They Say—

JE WELL-DRESSED dog must have two over-~-a bathcoa a Antoinette Behrs, New York canine coutiiriere,

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—V oltaire:

VOICING CONFIDENCE IN PEOPLE OF NOBLESVILLE By Ponto

I don’t think there is any reason at all for the F. B. I., the State Police or the Governor to worry about Mr. Losey or Mr. Pelley’s operations in Johnstown, suburb of Noblesville. In the first place Noblesville is 100 per cent American born, 100 per cent loyal American and the old “bloody” 3d ward always. has been able to keep law and order. 2 8 8 LAUDS STORES WHICH CLOSED CHRISTMAS EVE By H. S. B.

I cannot refrain from writing regarding the early closing of the chain ‘grocery stores and Sears the night before Christmas. It gave both employees and employers some

happy hours with their families. No

doubt next holiday season more stores will follow their example. The writer would also suggest that the coming year the, large concerns, instead of making their late hours 9 or 9:30 p. m., trim off a little and make the closing hours at 8:15 or 8:30 p. m. The public will surely co-operate. This would be a worthwhile aid in the art of civilized and humanitarian living. . #8 5 SCOFFS AT JAPAN'S THREATS TO U. 8. By 8, F. C, r: A laugh in any market, (1) Of all the screams I ever en‘countered ‘in newspaper print both columnist+« and editorial, the fearsomeness of Japan making a fuss with us Is the funniest, (2) Ninety-two per cent of Japanese revenue to maintain her government comes from the sale of raw silk. Seventy per cent of that silk is purchased by the best-dressed women in the world—the women of these United States. (3) I have heard of the mafied fist or either the velvet glove, but mine eyes have seen the foot that-steps-on-the-gas encased in triple sheer, which though fragile as it is, nevertheless is the powerful whip which controls the Pacific. (4) The idea of Japan being able, in any manner, to aid her Axis allies is a grand joke. Japan wasn’ born yesterday but she is a great little bluffer. (5) Any time Japan is silly enough to jump on Uncle Sam, that minute she will have Russia and China on her back (what a golden oppor-

‘(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

tunity for them) and her national income pulled out from under her. (6) I noticed the Burma Road was reopened. 2 8 = DEFENDS RECORD OF

NEW CENTER TRUSTEE

By W. J. T.

Replying to Loyal Democrat: When the new Trustee took office a year ago, efficiency was demanded of him and I feel sure he has met the demand. During the.past year he has removed the “chiselers” from the relief rolls, ended politics in poor relief and reduced the cost of relief. No employee was dismissed immediately. Each one was given an opportunity to prove his or her efficiency. Only those employees whose work proved inefficient, or those who refused to co-operate, or were in any way detrimental to the achievement of the objective set by the Trustee, were dismissed. I have worked at the Trustee's office for several years and have cooperated with the new Trustee. My work, as that of other older employees, has been clarified, thus we are able to do more and better work than ever before. The praise of Mr. Ludlow is fully deserved by him, but surely Loyal Democrat knows that suffering could not be alleviated by Mr. Ludlow without the co-operation of the Center Township Trustee, who has thoroughly investigated every needy person brought to his attontion by Mr. Ludlow and «ll others.

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URGES LABOR CHIEFS TO CALL A TRUCE By J. R. M. I think it is about time for labor’s leaders to realize that American labor's future welfare as well as that of their own well-paid jobs depend on the outcome of the war. Union officials including its many delegates, should call a truce at once on all the labor fronts, put on

overalls, and help America in ts hour of crisis.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE SMITHY’S FIRE By Roy L. McCullough, New Palestine, Ind. In your paper under the heading, “Hoosier Goings On,” it says “It Costs the Smithy His Shop.” Oct. 30, 1940, Wednesday's edition. No fireman fell in the cistern and no one came to his rescue. The New Palestine fire truck was at one

cistern on Mill St.; the Sugar Creek|.

Township truck at one cistern on Main St. The fire was between the two streets. Plenty# water in both cisterns and no fireman in either. The fire was soon under control and the shop did not burn down. The next morning the doors to the shop were closed and no one could get in. Just some of the top burnéd off. The fire company here doesn't let them burn down. This is the news or rather the facts of the “dunking” at the Smithy’s fire of Oct. 23, 1940.

”» 2 » DEPLORES WORKING CONDITIONS IN MILL By Curious I have made a big jump lately, a jump down. I am a university grad-

uate working at reserve labor in one|§ of Indiana's largest steel mills. I|f

have jumped from poverty, spud peeling - and - -intellectual down to day labor and payroll slavery.

If you think day labor in a steel

mill isn’t slavery, I suggest you try| 3 it sometime. I get $256 for working

40 hours a week. One week 8 to 4, the next 4 to 12 and the next 12 to 8. The mill I work in is so black and dirty I cannot see the ceiling at night. . It is not heated at all. The mill sets on a man-made peninsula right out in Lake Michigan. When the big doors are opened at night to let in freight cars, boy, that cold, damp lake wind is something. If there are worse working conditions in Germany or Russia -I'd like to see them. All we workers are looking forward to is time out and pay day. I notice the men spend a lot of money on bad women ahd worse likker. We are the forgotten proletariat.

sn 8 JOBS TERMED BEST WAY TO FIGHT FIFTH COLUMNS

Ernest Morten, Gen. Secy., Indianapolis Wor rkers Alliance

Our newspapers and radio news programs are full of propaganda which tells us all about the activities of fifth column groups. The membership of the Workers Alliance is heartily in accord with any movement which tends to eliminate unAmericanism. ’ This reminds us of a statement which was made some time ago by Vice President-elect Hon. Henry A. Wallace: “The best’ way to fight fifth column activity is to end unemployment.”

ROAD TO WEALTH By JAMZIS D. ROTH The road to wealth is open wide, Through the tewn and countryside. You're on that road if you but mind Advige ¢ as given—“Be ye kind.”

Pearls and gold may quickly vanish And thoughts of them you may well banish. But a word of kindness sweetly sald, Will live forever where you tread.

And. a helpful turn to one in stress, Is an act of cheer the Lord will bless. Give of Jour mite, and harbor no stealth, And this, my friends; is the ‘road to wealth,’

DAILY THOUGHT

And He taught, saying unto them: Is it not written, my house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? made it a gen of

freedom| §

‘| the health-promoting green ‘leafy

But ye have thieves.—~Mark

Gen. Johnson Says—

There Is Talk of a New Order, But the Regimented Society ‘Which Is Urged Cannot Be Termed ‘New.

ASHINGTON, Jan. 1~On this new year, 1s'a lot of talk about bringing a new order.

new order seems to be some kind of regimen society

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—socialism. In England, Winston Churchill tells his there will be something new more people will have more pe. leges. Far be it from this to depreciate the Prime Mipigter, He is, in any language, a guy. In 1929, I saw him in & ker’s office lose his Taste | on an American industrial = pany—Ilose it against the best vice, and just like a man betting two aces against a full house. At We might not agree with Churchill but we must acmit that whether it is his: American

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or the British blood of one of the .

greatest of goldiots, the Duke of Marlborough, Mr. Churchill is a force in the world.

In Wotld War I, he was the apostie of: the flank:

attack. The very foolish marine expedition to Ame sterdam, and the ghastly experimen: of Gallipolis are

examples. He wrote a fascinating book exculpatings

himself with which many military strategists do’ no#

agree, but it is a fact that the German front finally. began to crumble at its back door.

” 8 » HIS is pot intended to be a critique of strategy. It is a criticism of economic strategy, Do we have to remake our world on sore sort of regimented pattern of human effort? The: idea on, which America was built was half Thomas deftetsify and half Adam Smith, Their greatest works came out at the same Hime —1776. We didn’t hear so much about Mr. Smith.’

We hear a lot about Mr. Jefferson. Both said thé’ . same thing in different ways, They said that if release the energies of millions of people to ay? their own fortune and future in their o'vn way human race will progress much faster than if we

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to tell people from some central font of! knowledgs

and goodness ‘how to be prosperous, free and happy, It is doubtless true that, in our more crowded’ communities, more regulation is necessary. Bub: there is still no man sufficiently smart to be i enough for all-men. There has beén no man Jesus good enough for all men, What we need is to continue our trust in the mass of us. After all, wha; went before democracy was effort regimented by some

king or tyrant. There is nothing new in these new +

“ideas. The question is simply whether regimented:

effort is better than free effort. What we have done’ in this country by free effort speaks for our system: ¥ 8 TR T= American formula of democracy—of leaving, every man not only free but ihdepencent on nothwe ing but his own efforts—is what our-fathers thought would produce a maximum result for all people. . sil “Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations,” means nothing more. Whether men are dependents, on what their fathers have saved or whether they: are dependent on a beneficent government—which means on the rest of us—the result is the same. They: aren’t any good. Depending on the wisdom with which this war 1a. ended, we shall ‘have a better day. If it is ended on any different note than that the rules of Sadedon, * still stand and the ancient verities still are true, it will simply sow the seeds of a worse wrr—just as the last one did. Among the foremost of these ver ties are that’

. you can’t enslave a whole people, tha; might oi

did make right, and that the greatest freedom for | man is, at long last, the best rule for both the Tany and the few. od

A Woman's Viewpoint:

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

"Wn work offers endless opportunities to women, writes an enthusiastic feminine leader. “Ley ; us take \advantage of them.” h Yes, let's] But befors we become too desperately: involved it might be a good ‘idea “0 analyze our” motives. What's behind our nobler’ movements? “The desire to help,” you say. Maybe, and then er. maybe not. It cold be the to escape domestic monotony group activity. I could be i longing to fecl important, ‘It could: be the natural feminine yen 102 manage things.’ CUE NA po en Uv to Tod Tobie toe n ey ulge their over the place these foclings all, unfinished knitting is always in Svidence ; ow " first reaction to, the efatigable yarn spinnef, who takes her work wherever she goes and maages. to make it the center of attention after she there, is sheer admiration. But after you've bu 3 into a couple of hundred in the course of a few ihe you wonder whether there may not be a hint, of exhibitionism in such pubile zeal. I can remember World War No. 1, and I would re my oath that a great many American women enjoyed:

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it tremendously. They not only got way from Roden;

hold routine but felt themselves part of a humanitarian movement to- save demoeracy and,’ succor the oppressed. There’s another funny quirk to human nature, too, and it is especially noticeable in the feminine sex. Most of us endow ordinary people on the other of the world with heroic qualities, and at the same ¢ time speak of unfortunates at home as shiftions. ne’er-do-wells. : vi, Whatever comes we will always do our part ti help great causes. But in order to make such effective we ought to think with our heads as as our hearts, For instance, the widely pu notion that by feeding the hungry of Europe we forthwith convert them to democracy is as f

as to believe that all the Telugess to whom we haven will become honest and valuable citizens. din

Watching Your Health 4

By Jane Stafford :

0 this first day of January, wish yourself as well { as your friends a healthy and a happy New Year, “ Then remember the verse that starts “If wishes horses,” and set yourself to the job of making. new year a healtiiy one for yourself and your f Here is a check list of things to do on that job. = 1. A visit to your physician once each year, even 2 you are not sick, is advisable because his examination may disclose the first signs of trouble which, if neg= lected, may grow serious. On this visit you 0. get helpful advice about your weight, diet, and the handling of personal worries and 2. Plan your daily schedule throughout the year as to allow enough time for rest. For most ad this means eight hours of sleep. each night, and for children.

kily eat anything you like, to eat fir p fruits, milk, eggs, liver and whole. nd’ read,

b 4. Make some outdoor exercise a part of Jou ine, particularly if you work at a siting,

ob Pight disease gerras with

means not only the daily bath and ons iothes on

particularly, well scrubbed hands before eating | handling food, clean individurl Jollet a articles, D eating and cooking utensils, and ‘sovating mouth

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